Deer leg in garden

[SquishyBones]

I get my dogs deer legs to chew on (complete with hooves and hair). As it’s been hot my dog has been off her food and I gave her a deer leg on Friday to chew on. She carried it around the garden then tried to bury it in DH veg pots so I told her off. She then carried it to the back of the garden and pushed it through a small hole in the fence landing in next doors garden. They were sitting out in the garden at the time and the woman screamed and ran inside and her husband just said “what the fuck is that?!” I went over to the fence and apologised and explained it was the dog. He asked me where I got it from and if I make a habit of killing and chopping up animals!! I explained they are bought from the pet shop. He apologised but added “it’s disgusting though, the wife is in a right state”. I asked him if we could have it back and he refused to touch it so I had to go around to their house and get it myself (they don’t live next door, they live down the street but their garden backs onto ours.

I retrieved it and told DH that dog was to have no more until she got her appetite back.

Well she’s only gone and done the same thing with a big fucking black fury cows ear that DH gave her. They’re going to go ballistic when they see it.

AIBU to insist that DH goes for it this time?

I’m quite surprised how many people seem horrified by it tbh.

I mean, yeah it’d freak me out a bit when it was unexplained animal parts, that’s how weird stalker films start... but once you know a dog put it there, surely it’s just mildly annoying that it’s leaving meat in your garden?

At least it wasn't parts of a cooked whole badger, I suppose.

(I haven't RTFT) Can you use a stick to get the ear back?

That is disgusting. But if you insist on buying this kind of grimness, make sure you block up any holes in your fence. Your dog probably thinks it’s a hidey hole.

WTF OP what happened to gravy bones and a dentastix?! Starting to think my poor pooch is very hard done by, he never gets to chew on dead animals😮

Haha. This is great. My dogs would love a deer leg to munch on.

I can't bear dogs been fed crap food and treats or worse still bloody ice cream and biscuits

I'm all up for using up whatever is left over from meat for human consumption too. Way better than artificial rubbish.

I can't believe your neighbours over reaction.

Well the hole definitely does need blocking up but there's no need for the hysteria and drama. It's just a deer leg, it's only flesh and bone and it won't hurt anyone.

We regularly get bones from the butchers for our dogs. They love them! Although the chickens do sometimes mug the dogs for them...

I'm not a complainer, I'm a dog lover and my dogs often find dead animals and will eat them if off lead so I'm also not terrible squeamish. But twice is once too many from a neighbour OP, we'd be having words.

Why is your dog trying to get rid of food though OP? It's obviously a new thing given the neighbours' reactions, could there be something wrong with her?

I agree, you should have dogproofed your garden after the first incident. Finding it funny after it distressed your neighbour is shitty behaviour.

@callmeadoctor

I feel that the poster is being disingenuous on here, Im sure that they know perfectly well that this would upset the neighbours, not least because there is a hole in the fence that their dog can get through!

Well disingenuous is one word for it but people love it don’t they and it makes a change.

This has made my Sunday, imagining sitting in my garden and a dismembered deer leg appearing through a hole in the fence, surreal!!!

Just mend the fence and nobody’s unreasonable.

This is one of the funniest things I've read in ages! The picture of the deer legs was the icing on the cake

A summary of the past 24 hours of mumsnet:

1. Toddlers running after pigeons is ghastly and cruel
2. Dogs shoving cows ears and deer legs into other peoples gardens is a good giggle

I can’t keep up! New to have a daily what’s in and out list published!!

Move next door to me OP and the dogs can share. Our pet shop does a lot of natural food and treats. My terrier insisted on burying his in the garden before he ate it.

I don't think the dog's trying to 'get rid' of the treat. She's probably just trying to store it away from the other dog.

That's why I found half a chewed bone under my pillow last week

That is pretty funny! I can see why they might be a bit disturbed though.

Looking at the dog treats website I found myself thinking the puffed pigs snouts looked tasty!

www.puppytalespetproducts.com/natural-chews/puffed-pig-snouts

@squishybones, where do you get such interesting treats? It's all fair,y basic round here!

OP's coffee table

Brilliant.

If that was my garden, I would have been “wtf?!” Then once I realised what it was, I would have just pushed it back.

It’s a leg and an ear. Big deal

There are fairies deer legs at the bottom of our garden!

I think @Bananarama101 has just won todays internet.

This is one of those stories that really should be received in quiet silence with some hmming and ahhhing, but it's too funny. Especially the picture of a deers leg slowly being pushed though (presumably in an impossibly anatomically natural way ?) a hold in a fence. Like the start of a horror film ....

I'm sure there must be scope for a pun about getting a leg up, how dear meat is, or keeping your ears open.

Our (vegan) dog gets raw carrots and broccoli as snacks instead. I doubt the neighbours would have been upset by those...

Oh deer